ME:3 & ME:A Multiplayer Join/Invite Friends Not Working in EA app
*PLEASE HELP MASS EFFECT MULTIPLAYER COMMUNITY*
Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer and Mass Effect Andromeda Multiplayer no longer have functional invite/join feature via EA app (and I hear other platforms). Originally only EA accounts made in 2018 spring and later were unable to host private Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer lobbies, and joining them via invitation privately was impossible (back then when Origin was a thing and had overhaul that broke friendlist feature).
Everybody can still host public matches and tell friends to search for specific coordinates: enemy, map, difficulty, which may result in finding wrong lobbies, or random players taking our friend's spots so we have to kick them, and is overall inconvenience, not to mention that it leaves bad taste to multiplayer community as this "kicking players" behavior rate increases. We can still send invitations to friends via in game EA app overlay, and friends can accept them, but they can never join, aka never enter inivted lobby, that they can find if they search for it if host sets it to public. Mass Effect Andromeda case is now even more problematic than Mass Effect 3's, since MEA search is region wide, so if friends are too far away they cannot find each other anyway and both end up in solo public lobbies, even if they have room for 3 more players each. Sometimes a third party VPN can help, but it usually ends up with disconnection as soon as lobby is found.
We have been reporting this bug to EA for 5 years now and every communication with any EA Advisors for the last half decade contained "We are working on the fix as we speak" messages. But the fix never came. Instead, from around couple months ago, now in 2023, every account, not only those made after 2018, but all accounts of any age, and not only Mass Effect 3, but also Mass Effect Andromeda, have the same failed to join errors, this bug has simply spread and affected all Mass Effect Multiplayer players world wide on PC in both games ME3 and MEA (and I hear consoles are having issues too but cannot confirm myself as I do not have a console). We attempted more communications multiple times with EA Advisors in last couple of months, and were told the same that "They are working on the fix as we speak".
Please, someone at EA servers and team, someone in charge and control over this kind of stuff, talk to each other and solve this problem by fixing EA app or updating ME3 and MEA. Half decade is a very long time for EA to do nothing about its basic friendlist features, such is joining a friend's game. I am the founder of the N7 Squad community that has been home to Mass Effect Multiplayer for 9+ years, where thousands of players are waiting and hoping for this fix, so please reach out to us in case you need player testers or anything we can do to contribute to solving this problem together. Thank you for your time.
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(cm edit - updating thread for tracking)
- FIX RELEASED - Post Marked as Solution for Visibility
Hey hey everyone,
Our sincere apologies for not really updating this thread, but that's because we unfortunately didn't really have anything to share... until now.
We have received reports from our teams that the issue now has been 100% resolved and also people with post-2018 and pre-2018 accounts should now be able to create and join lobbies again, which should count for both Mass Effect: Andromeda and Mass Effect 3.
Our request for you: Could you please give it another try and let us know how it goes?
Many thanks in advance!
